Weather-strip for doors



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WEATHER STRIP FOB DOORS No. 372,084. Patented Oct. 25, 1887.

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' To all whom it may concern.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;-

JAMES K. PATTERSON, OF CRETE, NEBRASKA.

WEATHER-STRIP FoR DOORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,084, dated October 25, 1887. Application filed May 10, 1887. Serial No. 237,768. (No model.)

Be it known that 1, JAMES K. PATTERSON, of Crete, in the county of Saline and State of Nebraska, haveinvented a new and Improved Weather-Stri p for Doors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple,inexpensive, and efficient weather-strip device for doors which will automatically close to the door-sill as the door closes for excluding rain, snow, winds, or dust from housesor rooms, and thereby prevent damage to health or to household furniture or appurtenances.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the weather-strip device, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is an outside view of the lower parts of a door frame and doorwith my improved weather-strip device applied thereto, the door being partly opened. Fig. 2 is alike view with the door closed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view showing the door closed and the Weatherstrip pressed to the door-sill. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of part of the door with the weather-strip raised as when the door is open, and shows also the action of the strip on a guide or cam plate for closing the strip to the door-sill; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the springhinge of the weather-strip.

The sheet-metal weather-strip A is hinged by a peculiar spring-hinge, B, and an ordinary butt-hinge, O, to a cleat, D, which is fixed by screws to the outer face of the door E,near the lower edge of the door. The cleat D is made preferably of wood, and is provided with a groove, (1, along its back face, whichv allows the narrow bearing-surfaces of the strip on the door, especially the upper bearing-surface, to fit very tightly to the door, and thereby prevent entrance of rain or wind between the cleat and the door. The lower inner corner or part of the cleat is cut away to form a concavcd re cess, F, into and against the face of which an upturned flange, a, on the inner upper edge of the weather-strip A fits tightly when the strip is forced against the door sill G by a guide, H, which is fixed to the door-jamb I, and will be hereinafter particularly described. The re cessF and the strip A and its flange a are relatively arranged to form an air-space,f, outside of the flange a at the bottom of the cleat when the Weather-strip is closed to the sill, at which time the strip bears fairly on the lower edge of the cleat, as clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

The hinge B is made with two leaves or plates, each having an eye at each end to receive a pintle, b, on which is placed a spiral spring, J, one end of which enters a groove or recess, 1), at the inner face of one of the hingeplates, and its other end enters arecess, b", at the inner face of the other hinge plate, and whereby the faces of the plates may rest fairly on the weather-strip A and cleat D and hold the ends of the spring. The spring acts nor mally to lift or swing the weather-strip upward until the strip is stopped by contact with the head of a screw eye or pin, K, which is preferably passed through the hinge B into the cleat and door.

It is obvious that by screwing the stop Kin or out more or less the extent of uplifting of the weather-strip A may be regulated at will to cause the curved outer surface or part of the strip to strike beneath the guide H to cause its lowering by the guide to the door-sill as the door closes; or by screwing in the stop K considerably the weather-strip may be lifted sufiiciently by the spring J topass over the top of the guide H and remain open or raised from the sill if at any time a circulation of air is desired at the lower joints of the closed door with the sill or casing. I prefer. to use two of these screw-stops K, one passed through each hinge B 0 into the cleat and door. (See Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings.)

The guide or cam H consists of a strip of sheet metal, preferably of the same kind of which the weather-strip A is made, and bent on a curve or in concavo-conveX shape at its body part, and to form a flange h, at its lower end, which is secured to the door-sill by ascrew. The upper end of the guide is bent over and back upon itself and fastened by a rivet, and so as to form an eye, h, through which a screw, h is passed into the door-jamb I to hold the ICO guide firmly against t-hcpressureof theweatherstrip while the strip is being forced by the guide to the sill, as hereinbefore described. This guide or cam H is very inexpensive to make or apply and is very eifeetive in use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a Weatherstrip device for doors, the combination, with a door, the Weatherstrip A, and thc cleat D, to which it is hinged, of an adjustable stop or stops, K, in the elcat, adapted to limit the upward movement of the weather-strip, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

J AMES K. PATTERSON.

Witnesses:

JACOB H. BAHNER, TYLER DARLING. 

